best way to strip a goose quill of the feather fibres?

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best way to strip a goose quill of the feather fibres?

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Can someone help here please.
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Cut them as close as you can with sharp scissors and then run the side of a stanley blade along the spines. They will be removed fairly easily this way.
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JAA wrote:You'll need a goose, a can of lighter fuel and a box of matches.
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Can I have the goose when your done I like goose
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I'd always advocated stripping the hurl downwards by hand, an inch at a time, but starting at the bottom. This so often rips the body open though that I'm now inclined to cut that first bit, along with the fluffy down, off with a scalpel blade moving upwards.

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Buller wrote:Can someone help here please.
Thanks, B
I cut the feathers as close as possible to the quill with a pair of small scissors and then sand the quill using very fine sand paper.
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Mark wrote:
Buller wrote:Can someone help here please.
Thanks, B
I cut the feathers as close as possible to the quill with a pair of small scissors and then sand the quill using very fine sand paper.
Thats exactly what I have done this morning and have done the whippings, just need to paint the tip and varnish and I think its looking rather good for my first homemade quill float :D
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Thanks, all good.

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Scissors, razor blade, followed by medium grained wet & dry paper (dry). Good luck!!
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